4. Serco Internal
The Barriers
4
Engagement was just a survey
No senior leader buy-in
No accountability – it’s HR!
No internal evidence
No resources
No sharing best practice – suspicion
5. Serco Internal
How?
5
Reality check - get out and about in the
business
Creation of an Engagement Strategy
Develop case studies
Redesign and reposition the survey
Set up a Global Engagement network
Create resources to support managers
Business Linkage analysis
Develop an Engagement Master Class
Utilise internal social media platform
Build strong links with key stakeholders –
internal and external
8. Serco Internal
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Serco Customer Net
Promoter Scores (NPS)
Contracts with high levels of
employee engagement (65%+
engaged)
Contracts with opportunity
levels of employee
engagement (45-64%
engaged)
Contracts with risk levels of
employee engagement (30-
44% engaged)
Contracts with destructive
levels of employee
engagement (<30% engaged)
Based on analysis of 133 contracts and 489 customers in the
UK and Europe division in 2011.
Employee
engagement is a tool
that can help retain
and win new
customers
Serco has found that where employee engagement
is high, there are more customers promoting Serco
9. Serco Internal
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At Serco, trend analysis
suggests high employee
engagement predicts future
customer satisfaction. The
reverse relationship of
customer satisfaction
predicting future employee
engagement does not
appear to be as strong.
The effects of employee engagement become
stronger over time
*IMPORTANT: We need to acquire the next wave of customer survey data to begin establishing whether the trend is
statistically significant or not.
….but employee engagement will catch up with them if they
neglect it
10. Serco Internal
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Contract Director’s view of their
contract?
Employees’ experience of Serco
delivering the contract?
Is this sustainable?
Immediate successes might tempt some to ignore engagement or
say ‘what we’re doing now works and it doesn’t matter…..’
11. Serco Internal
The five contract groups with notable relationships:
How do employee engagement scores compare to operating profita
14%
11%
7%
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
High employee
engagement (65%+)
Opportunity employee
engagement (45-64%)
Risk / Destructive
employee engagement
(<45%)
Operating Profit (EBIT) as a % of revenues
1
1
High engagement contracts produced DOUBLE the operating profits of
risk/destructive engagement contracts.
Contract groups
represented
Division reference
Health UK and Europe
Facilities Management UK and Europe
Public Sector Education SGS UK and Europe
Justice and Corrections ASPAC
Middle East SME
12. Serco Internal
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2
Contract
Bid: £10m
Contract Bid:
£10m
+ Engaged employees
+ Governing
Principles
+ Rapid engagement
of TUPE employees
Contract
Bid: £10m
+ Specialist
experience of
similar
contract
Contract
Bid: £10m
+ experience
of having
world’s
largest
contract
portfolio
Contract
Bid: £10m
+ well known
brand name in
the market
And it’s more than the numbers, it will make us
stand out among competitors!
13. Serco Internal
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3
Build a balanced
portfolio
Maintain high
rebid and new
win rates
Make strategic
acquisitions
Develop new
models
• Engaged
employees are
committed to
us. That
reduces the
risk that we
lose our
expertise that
we can
transfer to
other markets.
• Engagement
helps build our
base of
customer
promoters.
This will help
improve our
rebid and new
win rates.
• Engagement
helps to
strengthen our
brand and
reputation.
That helps
make a better
case for
acquisition by
Serco.
• Engagement
can help us
collaborate
effectively.
• Engagement
has been
found to
correlate with
innovation and
new ideas.
To become the World’s Greatest Service
Company
Engagement will help us deliver on the core
elements of our strategy